Nation of refuge

I can't let the prez's profanation of Thanksgiving, indeed of the whole American idea, go unremarked on. Abandoning refugees on the day we remember the Pilgrim refugees? I don't know why two National Guardsmen were shot, but, beyond deep sorrow for these people whose oaths to serve in the nation's protection were being exploited, it almost doesn't matter. The manically xenophobic response has been so disproportionate and so comprehensive that it's clearly premeditated. The white nationalists in charge have been itching to gut even legal forms of immigration, and have been waiting for a chance to unleash their venom. This dreary predictability makes it no less of an outrage.